HOW TO ORGANIZE SKIRTS

If your closets are overflowing or jumbled, you’re likely wasting so much time looking for things and also damaging your clothes as they are being jammed and snagged in your closets. So, we continue my series on clothing organization. I covered outerwear organization in my previous post. Here I continue with the best ways to properly organize and store your skirts to prevent wrinkles and maximize space. And, did you know, you can also organize your spaces according to your organizing style? You can find out what your organizing style is here.

Before organizing your skirts, you must purge the ones that you do not like and no longer use. Be ruthless and purge the excess so you can more easily store what you do need and use.

In my freebie library here, I include guides which help walk you through the organizing process and help you decide what to purge and keep. I also include my declutter and organizing challenge calendars and guides to help direct you through each area of your home. These guides ensure you get through every nook and cranny and finally get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

In this post, we focus on how to organize your skirts. Below, I share ideas on how to organize your skirts with different types of organizing solutions that will work for your organizing styles and spaces. I also share how to organize the rest of your bottoms including shorts, leggings, pants, and jeans.

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Skirt Organization

Before you start organizing your skirts, I highly suggest editing your collection. You don’t want to purchase a bunch of organizing solutions to contain skirts you’re not even going to wear. I share my clothing quantities to keep guidelines in my freebie library here. My guide helps you to determine how many of each clothing item to keep based on your lifestyle and how often you are able to do laundry. I also share tips for how to keep your closets from overflowing, yet always have something to wear, here.

Skirt Hanging Options

The simplest skirt hanging solution is to utilize hangers you already have. You can simply fold your skirts in half and drape them over the bottom bar of your hangers. I actually do this in my own closet. I do get wrinkles, however, when hanging skirts this way. I don’t wear skirts very often, so this isn’t a big deal for me. However, if you wear skirts more often and want to have them ready to wear and wrinkle-free, here are some hanging options that will work for you.

How to Make Use of the Hangers You Have

You can turn any of your standard hangers like these (found here):

into skirt hangers by adding clips like these (found here):

You simply search for your type of hanger with the word “clips” (i.e. velvet hanger clips, plastic hanger clips, etc.) and you have a skirt hanger which allows you to hang your skirts from the wasteband.

Low Profile Skirt Hangers

If a standard hanger with clips is taking up too much vertical space, you can use low profile hangers. They typically come in two styles. One is the bar clamp style like this (found here):

If your skirt is wider than the width of the bar, the sides will hang. You can fold your skirt in half and then clamp it, but only if the material is thing enough for the clamp to contain it.

The other low profile style hanger is a double clamp hanger like this (found here):

If you use the double clamp style of hanger like the one above, I recommend choosing ones that have adjustable clamps that can slide across the bar in order to contain narrower and wider skirts.

Maximizing Vertical Closet Storage

To take advantage of the vertical space saved with these low profile skirt hangers, you can add a double-hanging rod to your closet where you store all your tops on the top closet rod and all your bottoms on the added hanging rod, for example (found here):

To conserve closet rod space in a standard single rod closet, you can use a cascading hanger like this, in combination with the low profile hangers above, to contain multiple skirts in the space of one hanger (found here):

Another space-saving skirt hanger option is to use a tiered hanger like this (found here):

Instead of the tiered skirt hanger above, however, I recommend using the cascading hanger in combination with individual skirt hangers instead. The tiered hanger is a bit cumbersome regarding accessing skirts in between other skirts. The cascading hanger allows you to hang up the other side of the hanger, when needed, so you can easily access each skirt individually.

Bonus tip: If you don’t have long hanging space for long skirts, you can fold a long skirt in half and clip the top of your skirt with the bottom edges of your skirt when utilizing skirt hangers.

I hope you found some ideas for how to organize your skirts for your organizing style and/or the space that you have! In my next post, I share how to organize shorts. Don’t forget to grab my free resources from my freebie library here. Let’s get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

Happy Organizing!